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ADAM DURITZI’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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